"They ran away without anything and we are hosting them in our church because they have no place else to go. Parents and their kids are all spending the nights on the floor of the church without anything to cover themselves."

Some shells fired during recent fighting landed in Rwanda, threatening to pull the country into the conflict.

Both Congo's army and rebels accuse the other of firing the missiles, raising fears that Rwanda might openly intervene in a country where it has fought two wars in the last two decades.